And yet in Notts I’ve now been seeing police on the tram stops with like 10 tram staff making sure people are paying their 2 quid for a tram ticket. I really don’t understand why the police really care about a 2 quid tram ticket but won’t look for a stolen bike that cost 700 quid.

It’s the brain worms, it’s always the brain worms.

A mate of mine calls them bicycle Tories.

I’ve literally been saying that for years, like, no shit Sherlock this should be common knowledge.

Nearly half the right to buy houses in Notts are owned by landlords too, and it was obvious that was going to happen.

Why are our politicians so fucking short sighted?

Let’s go dig up Maggie and ask her where that milk went 🎵

I still buy cassettes! New ones too!

I’m not sure a license is the best way to go about it, but I certainly do think something needs to change.

I believe there should be some sort of minimum commitment to training if a person gets a new dog, i.e. you can have a puppy but you must have already booked up x amount of training sessions, and have vets appointments booked in.

And with cats, it’d like to see pre-booked appointments for neutering/spaying and microchipping, because apparently according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood and not really have to take care of them at all.

I’d actually like to see legislation on new cats not being let outside unless contained in a catio or something.

When I was a kid, if I wanted to ride to school, my school required that I pass a cycling proficiency test, which taught me about road laws and where and how I was supposed to position my bike on the road to stay safe.

I’d love to see a cycling and small electric vehicle proficiency course be part of our school curriculum.

There are always going to be people that ignore the rules of the road (I nearly got hit by a car today who didn’t give way to the right on a roundabout, I was watching him, he didn’t even look!), but I don’t see how adding this in schools could cause harm.

Check out how Bicing in Barcelona works, problem is already solved there, no need to start fining lime, just change the legislation so that these services need to have physical locking racks where bikes can be both left and retrieved from, that way they can’t be stolen and they’ll be kept in better condition because they aren’t being pinched constantly.

Check out how bicing in Barcelona works, no cameras and surveillance, but you literally cannot retrieve a bike without an account and the app because they are physically locked in racks. It’s a brilliant system and ours can be easily fixed with a little legislation.

You just bump start them, there’s nothing to break from the outside, you just lift the back wheel and start moving, then drop the wheel and it’ll keep going, but with an alarm and a clacking.

Yeah there is, they can be bump started really easily, you literally just lift the rear wheel then start moving forward, then put the wheel back down and jump on, I’ve seen kids do it, it takes zero skill. In the meadows these days I hear a lime alarm pretty much every day.

This is a problem that’s already been solved, check out bicing in Barcelona and how that works. This really is a problem of legislation.

Tories gonna Tory

I don’t like the idea of MPs having private meetings with corpos at all. Unless it’s discussion of something that would be a national security issue, I don’t see why any meetings shouldn’t all be on public record

If you see someone stealing food, no, you didn’t.

The problem with Amazon is they will list and deliver any product under the sun, the organisation as a whole should have been forced to split by the Competition and Markets Authority years ago, but it wasn’t and now they basically have a monopoly on online sales. So it depends on what you’re after. Groceries? Try a supermarket like Tesco. Books? Try Waterstones. Electronics? Currys (awful though). Weird cables and adapters? Maplins still have a website.

Teachers basically raise the next generation, they have a huge impact on the subjects kids become interested in, education is one of the most important things in society.

Teachers should be paid more, and they should be able to have a 40 hour work week, not 60 hours like most do now, and they shouldn’t have to be buying the equipment they need to do their jobs themselves.

National Education Service please!

Time to bally up for trips to the pub, the supermarket, a nice walk in the park, etc.

There are a few situations where it’s warranted I feel, here in Notts if you look at the Victorian terraces in places like Snienton, the space between buildings simply isn’t wide enough for a 2 lane road and cars for all of the houses, there are no driveways as there are no front gardens just steps down. There’s also not really anywhere else in the area where people could leave their cars, so people park half on the pavement and half on the road each side, leaving just enough room for a single car to drive down the road.

There’s enough busses go through the area, but it doesn’t seem to help.

Otherwise I’m all for it.

Hiding that racial slurs exist isn’t a way to stop racism.

After reading the article, I still think these books are important, but it made it seem they were reading these books out in the class like we did with harry potter and stuff.